OBS. 4.—­A transitive verb, as I have elsewhere shown, may both govern the objective case, and be followed by an infinitive also; as, “What have I to do with thee?”—­John, ii, 4.  This question, as one would naturally take it, implies, “I have nothing to do with thee;” and, by analogy, what is governed by have, and not by do; so that the latter verb, though not commonly intransitive, appears to be so here.  Indeed the infinitive mood is often used without an objective, when every other part of the same verb would require one.  Maunder’s rule is, “Transitive verbs and participles govern either the objective case or the infinitive mode.”—­Comprehensive Gram., p. 14.  Murray teaches, not only that, “The infinitive mood does the office of a substantive in the objective case; as, ‘Boys love to play;’” but that, “The participle with its adjuncts, may be considered as a substantive phrase in the objective case, governed by the preposition or verb; as, ’He studied to avoid expressing himself too severely.’”—­See his Octavo Gram., pp. 184 and 194.  And again:  “Part of a sentence, as well as a noun or pronoun, may be said to be in the objective case, or to be put objectively, governed by the active verb; as, ’We sometimes see virtue in distress, but we should consider how great will be her ultimate reward.’  Sentences or phrases under this circumstance, may be termed objective sentences or phrases.”—­Ib., p. 180.

OBS. 5.—­If we admit that sentences, parts of sentences, infinitives, participles with their adjuncts, and other phrases, as well as nouns and pronouns, may be "in the objective case;" it will be no easy matter, either to define this case, or to determine what words do, or do not, govern it.[353] The construction of infinitives and participles will be noticed hereafter.  But on one of Murray’s examples, I would here observe, that the direct use of the infinitive for an objective noun is a manifest Grecism; as, “For to will is present with me; but to perform that which is good, I find not.”—­Octavo Gram., p. 184.  That is, “the performance of that which is good, I find not.”  Or perhaps we may supply a noun after the verb, and take this text to mean, “But to perform that which is good, I find not the ability.”  Our Bible has it, “But how to perform that which is good.  I find not;” as if the manner in which he might do good, was what the apostle found not:  but Murray cites it differently, omitting the word how, as we see above.  All active verbs to which something is subjoined by when, where, whence, how, or why, must be accounted intransitive, unless we suppose them to govern such nouns of time, place, degree, manner, or cause, as correspond to these connectives; as, “I know why she blushed.”  Here we might supply